Holland House
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Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, was an early Jacobean country house in Kensington, London, situated in a country estate that is now Holland Park. It was built in 1605 by the diplomat S
Joseph Addison, portrait circa 1703–1712 by Godfrey Kneller
Plaque displayed in Edwardes Square
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
A photograph staged for propaganda purposes, showing the bombed library at Holland House in 1940
Lady Caroline Lamb
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Lady Caroline Lamb was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. In 1812, she had an affair with Lord Byron, whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to k
Holland House
…writer John Allen was so much associated with the house that he was known as "Holland House Allen", and a room in the house was named after him. Lady Caroline Lamb, who had first met her lover Lord Byron at Holland House, satirised it in her 1816 novel Glenarvon. ...this strange house, which presents an odd mixture…
Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1805
Lady Caroline's mother, Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough, by Angelica Kauffman in 1793
Portrait of Lord Melbourne by Thomas Lawrence, 1805.
Lady Caroline Lamb, née Ponsonby by John Hoppner